English-Spanish translations for temperature

• temperatura
  La temperatura de la tierra aumenta a un ritmo alarmante. The earth’s temperature is rising at an alarming rate.
  Una hipótesis es que la temperatura global continuará subiendo. One hypothesis is that the global temperature will continue to rise.
  La incineración a alta temperatura constituye la excepción. High-temperature incineration remains the exception.
• fiebre
  La Sra. Ahlqvist se encuentra enferma, con mucha fiebre, a 2.000 kilómetros de nosotros. Mrs Ahlqvist is lying in bed with a temperature some 2 000 kilometres from here.
  Sé que al acercarse la hora de las elecciones, sufrimos la fiebre electoral y nos sube la temperatura. I know that near election time we suffer from election fever and our temperatures go up.

Definition of temperature

• A measure of cold or heat, often measurable with a thermometer
• An elevated body temperature, as present in fever and many illnesses
• A property of macroscopic amounts of matter that serves to gauge the average intensity of the random ''actual'motions of the individually mobile particulate constituents. [http://arxiv.org/pdf/physics/0004055]
• The balance of humours in the body, or one's character or outlook as considered determined from this; temperament

Examples

• The boiling temperature of pure water is 100 degrees Celsius.
• The temperature in the room dropped nearly 20 degrees; it went from hot to cold.
• You have a temperature. I think you should stay home today. You’re sick.

Related words

• room-temperature
• temperature coefficient
• temperature inversion
• temperature coefficient of reactivity
• temperature swing adsorption
• temperature feeler
• temperature lag
• absolute temperature
• room temperature